Bring about change legally - LETTER TO THE EDITOR: April 13

We are fortunate to have persons of such mental inventiveness as Supreme Court Justice Breyer who can channel the dead founding fathers and provide a real-life alternative to the now-defunct TV show "Medium". In that capacity, they tell us what the founders thought in writing the Second Amendment. Fortunately, "Medium" was fiction. Unfortunately, Breyer's ideas are dangerous. What matters is not what the founders thought or what Breyer thinks they thought but what they wrote. And what they wrote in the Second Amendment makes every existing and proposed gun control law in the land illegal according to the highest law of the land, the United States Constitution. The only legal way to modify the wording of the Second Amendment is for Congress to write and pass another amendment to the Constitution and for the States to ratify it. Toying with the Second Amendment by persons in all three branches of the federal government as is happening now is inviting chaos and then a police state. And that's not channeling dead persons' thoughts; that's paying attention to history.

ROY S. SALISBURY, JR.

Rochester

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